Kenneth Friend

I live art every day as a translator of art texts for museums, galleries, art book publishers, foundations and individual artists and as a visual artist with a regular daily practice. I paint, am a printmaker 8linoleum and woodcut) and collagist. I am inspired by the Fauves, German and Austrian art of the early twentieth century and pop art. I would call myself mainly a figurative artist with an emphasis on people and expression through colour.

2-Year Diploma in Fine Arts - VCC, Lanagara Campus, Vancouver, Canada
BA in History and Germanic Studies, Victoria, Canada
MA in History, Edmonton, Canada
Doctoral student in history, Edmonton, Canada and Freiburg, Germany (not completed)

• TASTE Fest der Künste in Hamburg, August 2017
• 30th district exhibition of the Förderverein Bildende Kunst Ostholstein, 2020
• Group exhibition "10 Tage, 10 Künstler, 10 Orte" in Oldenburg in Holstein, 17 to 27 June 2021, followed by solo use of a former travel agency as studio/gallery until end of August 2021, sponsored by KulTour Oldenburg in Holstein GmbH in the context of KulturSommer Schleswig-Holstein
• Project "Kunst im Archiv" of the artist Merabi Danelia in Eutin, 20 to 29 August 2021
• 31st district exhibition of the Förderverein Bildende Kunst Ostholstein, November 2021
• Group exhibition in a former travel agency in Oldenburg in Holstein, November-December 2021
• "Farbe bekennen" group exhibition in Oldenburg in Holstein, May 2022

• Participation in the juried "Tischlein deck dich" group exhibition of the Dornumer Kunsttagen in Dornum, East Frisia, Germany,August 2022

• Participation in the "State of the World" group exhibition of the Gmünder Kunstverein, February 2023

• Participation in the "Mangel" (Scarcity) group exhibition of the Kunstverein zu Rostock, March 2023